Wheel



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WHEEL.

` Application filed July 6,

To all 'inkom 'it may concern:

Be it known that l, ROY W. Brannon, citizen of the United States, residing at Arkansas City, in the county of Desha and State of Arkansas, have invented certain new and useful improvements in `Wheels, of which the following is a specincation.

rlhis invention relates to an improved motor vehicle wheel and has as one of its l0 principal objects to provide a wheel emlloodying laminated wooden discs 1n the structure thereof.

A further object of the invention 1s to provide a wheel wherein, in the preferred embodiment of the invention, one of the discs will be dished or cone shaped while the other disc employed will be flat.

And' the invention has as a still further object to provide a wheel which will be strong and durable and which may be proi duced at feasible cost.

Other and incidental objects willappear hereinafter.

ln the drawing: Figure 1 is a side elevation of my 1mproved wheel,

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional vlew taken medially through the wheel, and

Figure 3 is a vertical Section showmg a slightly dierent embodiment of the invention. y

ln carrying the invention into effect, ll employ a preferably metal hub 10 which 1s tapered toward its outer end and formed on radial annular flang 11. Near its outer end, the hub is provided vith an inclined annular flange 12 slanting in the direction of the flange 11. ln conjunction with the hub, li employ a rim 13 designed to accommodate an ordinary pneumatic tire and formed on the rim at its inner side is an inner rim 14. At one side, this rim is provided with a flat radial face while at its opposite side it is formed with an inclined face beveled to conform to the inclination ofthe ange 12. Snugly fitting over the hub 10 at its inner end is a laminated wooden disc 15 which is fiat and seats flat at its inner margin against the flange 11. "llhe outer margin of the disc seats dat against the flat radial face of the rim 1t and fitting over the hub at its inner end is a hub ring 16 overlying the inner margin of the disc at its outer said hub near the i ner end thereof is a- 1921. Serial No. 432,796.

side and seating flat thereagainst. EX- tending through the disc, the flange 11 and said ring, is a plurality of bolts 17 rigidly connecting the disc with the hub. Snugly fitting over the hub at its outer end is a laminated Wooden disc 18 which is dished or frusto-conical, the inner margin of the disc seating fiat against the flange 12 while the outer margin thereof seat-s flat against the inclined face of the rim 14. Fitting over the hub is a hub ring 19 overlying the disc, and seating ilat against the inner margin thereof and extending through said ring, the disc and the flange 12 is a plurality of bolts 20 rigidly connecting the disc with the hub. Extending transversely through the felly 11i and through the outer mar ins of the discs 15 and 18 is a plurality of circumferentially spaced bolts 21 rigidly connecting the rim with the discs. rlhus, as kwill be seen, the discs will rigidly support the rim in concentric relation to the hub and by employing one flat disc in conjunction with a frusto-conical disc, the rim is supported in a plane touching the plane of the inner end of the hub.

lln Figure 3 of the drawings, l have illustrated a slightly different embodiment of the invention wherein a hub 22 is employed, and formed on the hub near its ends are inclined annular flanges 23. 'llhe rim 24, which corresponds to the rim 13 of the preferred construction, is provided with an inner rim 25 having oppositely inclined side faces correspondin to the inclination of the Hanges 23 and fitting over the ends of the f hub are laminated frusto-conical Wooden discs 26 which are oppositely dished and at their inner margins seat flat against the iianges 23 while the outer margins of said discs seat flat against the inclined faces of the rim. Fitting over the hub at its ends are hub rings 27 through which are engaged bolts 28 extending through the discs and through the flanges 23, rigidly connecting the discs with the hub, while through the outer margins of the discs are engaged bolts 29 extending through the rim 25 and rigidlv connecting the rim with the discs. As will be seen, this embodiment of the invention provides an arrangement wherein, instead of employing one dat disc and one frustoconical disc, as in the Preferred construction, both of the discs are truste-conical while the rim is supported in a plane lying substantially midway between the ends of the hub.

.llaving thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

A wheel including a flanges near hut spaced a rim sl'lrrounding the hub and lnaving outwardly converging flat side faces alned with the respective flanges on the hub, laminated wooden discs extending between the huh and the rim and seating flat at their inner margins against the respective flanges and seating flat at. their outer margins against the fiat side faces of the rim,

hub having annular from both its ends,

the inner marginal edges of the discs abutting the outer circumference of the hub and the outer marginal edges of the discs abutting annular circumferential shoulders of the rim, securing bolts inserted through the 'rim and the outer marginal portions of the discs, rings fitted over the ends of the hub against the outer sides of the discs, and fastening bolts inserted through the inner marginal portions of the discs and the said rings and the flanges on the hul).

ln testimony whereof I aix my signature.

nov W. Bannon. LL. 5.] 

